Postgraduate Certificate/Postgraduate Diploma/MEd
Providing important and timely insights into professional development issues, this course looks at issues affecting your own professional development and those of your colleagues.
It also embraces topics related to the development of classrooms and the professional learning culture of your school.
Full consideration is given to the need to develop teachers as thoughtful and critical professionals, capable of engaging with the complex and demanding issues related to their own professional development, and to the development of others. Therefore its range moves far beyond that of a narrow training course, making full use of the insights provided by current research.
The course assessment strategy encourages a thoughtful and critical engagement with the practical problems that face you and in finding solutions to these.
The course is flexible and taught in a friendly and supportive way encouraging everyone to take part, building confidence and capability.
The course is studied part-time over three years. Each module may be taught over weekend(s) and / or during daytime or twilight sessions and is supported through web-based materials and e-mail guidance from tutors.
There is an alternative route for this course. This is the Intensive Work Based Learning (WBL) route, available to groups of professionals within their workplace.
Some of our modules
- Extended Professional Studies (CPD)
- Dynamics of Teaching and Learning
- Applying Wider Professional Knowledge and Skills
- Understanding Diversity in Learners
- Exploring Issues of Leadership and Management
Benefits
- strong focus on professional lifelong learning
- implications for school culture and school improvement considered
- current research used to analyse practical workplace and professional development issues
Career paths
Appropriate for all teacher members of the children’s workforce
Entry Requirements
To apply, you should have one or more of the following: a good honours degree or equivalent; a professional or postgraduate qualification; appropriate employment experience; or an ability to undertake and benefit from study at postgraduate level.
Mode of attendance
Part-time with weekend attendance
Location
Francis Close Hall
Enquiries and Applications
Student Recruitment Office
Waterworth Building
The Park, Cheltenham
Gloucestershire GL50 4BS
Tel: 01242 714500
Fax: 01242 714827
Email: postgrad@glos.ac.uk